“A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.” YearsRunningHoursMorningNew YorkYears AgoMilesBoatBreakfastEnginesPassengersMississippiPhiladelphiaCarriagesBaltimoreDine Author:Oliver Evans
“We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.” CountryFiveDangerousNew YorkGrewGrew UpMurderMovedRateHearingFunny ThingsBaltimoreMaryland Author:Philipp Meyer
“It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.” BelieveMeanChildrenLongEnoughKidsJusticeLibertyGenerationsNew YorkPaperBuiltIdealsOur ChildrenCelebrateConcreteWorthlessMississippiReservationsBaltimoreEquality And JusticeRidgesLiberty And JusticeDeltaFergusonEquality For AllAppalachiaWords On PaperMississippi Delta Author:Barack Obama
“I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.” PeopleIfsRunningUsedAsksParentStreetsNew YorkFakeIf I CouldBusWeekendSlipsRunning AwayPermissionMidnightBaltimoreSororityGreyhoundsGreyhound Bus Author:John Waters